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American pot activist Mickey Martin is opening a different kind of high school.

Northeastern Institute of Cannabis, in Natick, Mass., will soon be looking for students to enrol in a 12-course program that'll teach everything you wanted to know a marijuana, especially from a business perspective.

"This is one of the largest growth industries in America, and it's not just stoners and people who like weed anymore ─ it's a business," Martin told CNN. "We're targeting your basic worker, someone who wants to go to a dispensary and apply for a job, because these places want people who are trained."

Classes will deal with medical use, growing methods and how to operate a dispensary, along with the history of the herb.

"You have new (marijuana) industries starting up in states all across New England, but you have a virtually untrained workplace," Martin told CNN.

The school is still awaiting its licence, but Martin is confident the school will open in August with classes being held on nights and weekends.

CNN reports there won't be any marijuana at the school because it's not a dispensary and instructional videos and photographs will be used as teaching tools.

"The Institute of Cannabis will be a premiere learning institution for the cannabis industry, including professionals, patients, physicians, law enforcement and enthusiasts of cannabis," the institute says on its website. "We will provide cutting edge courses highlighted by the knowledge of the industry's leading experts."